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Daily Digest If you would like to forward this email to a friend, please use this link  Tennessee Lawyer Fired for Saying Islam Isn’t a Peaceful Religion My latest in PJ Media: It’s the sort of thing that can make someone proud to be an American: Two Christians are on trial now in Algeria for “insulting the prophet and denigrating the precepts of the Muslim religion.” Imagine: on trial for expressing opinions that go against those of the elites. But that could […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer Macron: ‘It isn’t the law of Islam that applies, it’s the law of the people, and I’m not going to change it for you’ Yet Macron continues to welcome into France large numbers of Muslim migrants, among whom are some who believe that it is wrong to follow “the law of the people” rather than “the law of Islam,” which they believe comes from Allah himself. Those migrants, and Muslims who are already in France who believe the same […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer Muslim from Kenya trained as pilot for years in order to carry out 9/11-style jihad attack against US skyscraper It appears from this story as if Abdullah was arrested in the Philippines and brought to the US for trial, but if he had not been arrested and had attempted to enter the US in order to carry out his jihad plot, he would have had no trouble getting into the country. Any questioning in […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer Iran sentences 19-year-old girl to 10 years prison for ‘promoting public corruption’ via playful doctored photos This sentence has sparked outrage among some people, but actually Sahar Tabar got off easily. She was sentenced to ten years for much the same crime for which Ruhollah Zam was executed. It is derived from the Qur’an: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: 137 students missing, jihad group Boko Haram claims it abducted over 330 This latest attack on the school comes on the heels of a warning by Boko Haram of further jihad massacres after the recent slaughter of 110 farmers, and an admission by Governor Kayode Fayemi of Nigeria’s Ekiti State that the military is overwhelmed. Boko Haram is expanding rapidly in Nigeria as it seeks to impose […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Christine Douglass-Williams UK: Man converts to Islam, stabs imam, attack blamed on ‘Islamophobia’ Incidents of “Islamophobia” are so thin on the ground in reality that they have to be invented. As you can see from the Huffington Post story from February, the media and the mosque leaders did their best to paint this incident as a manifestation of that phantom crime, but reality proved to be disturbingly intrusive. […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer New Zealand: Police question man over ‘hate speech’ for writing ‘Islam is Right about Women’ outside mosque What if the offender had been a Muslim who believed that Islam is right about women? He wouldn’t have been charged in that case, of course, but apparently the offender was a non-Muslim who was being sarcastic, and apparently New Zealand expect passersby to be able to discern that sarcasm in the bare statement “Islam […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Robert Spencer Indonesia: Muslim leader arrested, suspected of masterminding 2002 Bali jihad bombings that killed over 200 people Aris Sumarsono, aka Zulkarnaen, is a senior member of the al-Qaeda group Jemaah Islamiah. Possible fallouts from his arrest could be a weakening of Jemaah Islamiah and/or an impetus for revenge, according to security analyst Stanislaus Riyanta. It is not known why this arrest was made now, considering that Zulkarnaen has long been known to […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Editorial Warmongering At Iran’s Kayhan The hardline Iranian newspaper Kayhan is closely tied to the government; its editor Hossein Shariatmadari is appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and he remains an advisor to him. On December 6, Kayhan carried an editorial demanding that Iran not hesitate in striking Israel for its likely assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the nuclear scientist, […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Italy: Muslim migrant set neighbors’ houses on fire in Gambia, judge gives him residency anyway He arrived in Italy in 2016, where he was “considered by the Territorial Commission to be unworthy of reception, and was then awarded a permit thanks to the court of Bologna.” He says that the fire he set  was an accident, a matter of simple carelessness and a mighty wind. But he is apparently the […] Read more 2020-12-16  •  Christine Douglass-Williams David Horowitz Freedom Center P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks California 91499-1964 United States